The Design Studio allows you to connect the Cricut to your computer, so you can create an entire layout on the screen before cutting it out. It also includes the long-anticipated feature: welding. Welding allows you to make the letters of a word stick together. It’s a lot easier to work with a welded word than all of the individual letters.

The Jukebox adds to this functionality by allowing the Cricut machine to access up to 6 cartridges at once. You can chain more than one Jukebox together to have even more online at the same time. Then, you can make designs using the Design Studio with fonts and shapes from more than one cartridge on the same layout. It’s ingenious.

As before, I soon had those 2 as additions to my collection. It is so much fun that I find myself cutting things out that I don’t even need right then.

I will warn you, though, that it took me about 4 hours of firmware updates and reboots before I got it all working together (and my day job is working with computers). So my only complaint is that they should’ve made it easier to install.

In case you’re wondering, the only difference between this Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter (or "baby bug") and the Cricut Expression is paper size. The Personal Electronic Cutter allows a maximum paper size of 6×12" while the Expression can use paper up to 12×24".

I've lived in and around Brentwood, Tennessee for most of my life. I grew up in Franklin, moved away for a short time, and returned to Brentwood with a husband and preschooler in tow. I love gardening, walking, inline skating, scrapbooking, and spending time with my family.